Cannot deserialize - JSON.NET - Xamarin - json

Question

I'm struggling with below message. Other JSON objects in the same app work correctly.
Newtonsoft.Json.JsonSerializationException: Cannot deserialize the current JSON array
(e.g. [1,2,3]) into type 'Monkeys.Models.Rootobject' because the type requires a JSON
object (e.g. {"name":"value"}) to deserialize correctly.
I have the following output from the API via web browser:
[{"Id":"1","Name":"Monkey 1","Location":null,"Details":null,"SKU":null,"Size":null,
"Color":null,"Image":null,"Brand":null,"NameSort":"M"},{"Id":"2","Name":"Monkey 2",
"Location":null, "Details":null,"SKU":null,"Size":null,"Color":null,"Image":null,
"Brand":null,"NameSort":"M"}]
The Model in my App:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
namespace Monkeys.Models
{
public class Monkey
{
public string Id { get; set; }
public string Name {get;set;}
public string Location { get; set; }
public string Details { get; set; }
//URL for our monkey image!
public string SKU { get; set; }
public string Size { get; set; }
public string Color { get; set; }
public string Image { get; set; }
public string Brand { get; set; }
public string NameSort
{
get
{
if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(Name) || Name.Length == 0)
return "?";
return Name[0].ToString().ToUpper();
}
}
}
public class Rootobject
{
public Monkey[] monkeys { get; set; }
}
}
The App:
using System;
using System.Net;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Monkeys.Models;
using System.Collections.Generic;
namespace Monkeys.Apis
{
public class GetMonkeys
{
public GetMonkeys()
{
}
public async Task<Monkey[]> GetMonkeysAsync()
{
var client = new System.Net.Http.HttpClient();
client.BaseAddress =
new Uri("https://microsoft- apiappce13ac35390d40a684dd6ab72a9eef8f.azurewebsites.net:443/");
var response = await client.GetAsync("api/Monkey");
var earthquakesJson = response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
var rootobject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Rootobject> (earthquakesJson);
return rootobject.monkeys;
}
}
}

Answer 1

Your json data is an array of Monkey. Try this
// monkeys will be a List<Monkey>
var monkeys = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<Monkey>>(earthquakesJson);